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by snarfy 6y ago
I wrote an FAQ about 20 years ago. I did it because it was fun, of course. I loved the game and wanted the secrets that I knew that nobody else knew to be published somewhere. I remember one of the other players created a game guide for t
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by snarfy 6y ago
I did C++ for 10 years before moving on to C# for the next 10. I had an opportunity to work on a modern C++ project for a couple years and took it so that I could learn the new stuff. The team lead was a big C++ fan and used all the lates
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by snarfy 6y ago
> let’s just say the account name has something to do with computer hacking. My guess is it's bob@gmail.com
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by snarfy 6y ago
I recognize those 'jetcat' engines. https://www.jetcat.de
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by snarfy 6y ago
Sometimes they are systems problems. Static typing vs dynamic typing is a good example. The data you are dealing with may very well be dynamic in nature. You could have a strongly typed entity for dealing with it, e.g. hashset, but you re
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by snarfy 6y ago
If you want to play with imgui there are some webassembly demos also: https://jnmaloney.github.io/WebGui/imgui.html
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by snarfy 6y ago
> The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. That's all I needed to hear. Preordered.
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by snarfy 6y ago
Back when all you had was minicom dialing a BBS, there was a chicken and egg problem where you needed uudecode to decode any executable you downloaded. If you did not have uudecode you were stuck. If you are unfamiliar, unencoding a file
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by snarfy 6y ago
I'm not sure it's an advantage, but it's nice to see an alternative implementation of CSG. OpenSCAD depends on CGAL. CadQuery depends on CASCADE. This depends on neither as far as I can tell.
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by snarfy 6y ago
My previous employer's binary repository settled on using nuget for everything as it was primarily a .NET shop. For our internal C++ projects I made a 'nuget_package_add' CMake script which allowed us to package a lot of our
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by snarfy 6y ago
While I was teaching myself electronics over the course of a year or so, I would listen to the classic rock station as background music. After about a month of listening I noticed I could tell which song would come next. Their playlist wa
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by snarfy 6y ago
It's the pricing structure. They charge less to take something away if it has some value. The magic pixies are taking the value out. It's a public service until your bill goes up to haul away the trash nobody wants.
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by snarfy 6y ago
My problem with these approaches, is what's the next step? Do you implement GUI buttons on top of canvas and push pixels in WASM? Do you try and do something like ImGui and use WebGL? None of these approaches are efficient. If you ar
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by snarfy 6y ago
The main innovation I see is tokenization into columns instead of character streams. If I want to do that in a traditional shell, I use awk.
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by snarfy 6y ago
The problem with FreeCAD, and open source CAD in general, is we have two choices: OpenCASCADE and CGAL. FreeCAD is based on OpenCASCADE. I've used both libraries and OpenCASCADE really left a bad taste in my mouth. It's not a pro
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by snarfy 6y ago
It's peace of mind. I know 100% if someone wants into a house, they will get into the house. I know that when people put 'this property protected by Smith & Wesson' signs on their house, it only informs burglars there ar
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by snarfy 6y ago
I'm not sure where you should put it, but with 150k land + 200k industrial real estate, you should definitely not put anymore into real estate.
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by snarfy 6y ago
Walmart has their own SKUs. A lawnmower at Walmart is an entirely different product than one sold at any other store with the exact same name and company. They will work with the manufacturers to cheapen their products as much as possible
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by snarfy 6y ago
You probably don't want your primary physician to also be your surgeon, anesthesiologist, endocrinologist, and any other specialty you need. I'm sure there are some primary physicians that could pull it off and wear all the hats.
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by snarfy 6y ago
You can do quite a bit with a ~$150 9in band saw. Here's mine [1] [1] - https://i.imgur.com/pJOzxcp.jpg
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by snarfy 6y ago
A plumber once told me he could tell the ethnicity of the family by the color of grease clogging the drain.
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by snarfy 6y ago
I wonder how well it handles cold. I remember hearing about thieves spraying down those u-lock style locks with refrigerant, then tapping them with a hammer. They would shatter like glass.
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by snarfy 6y ago
Microsoft = MS IBM = Big Blue Ycombinator = YC Toshiba = Toshi off the top of my head ;) Not sure about Twilio, but upon first scan with my old eyes I wanted to read it as 'twillow'
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by snarfy 6y ago
It fails the two syllable rule. All the best companies/bands/groups have two syllable names. If by chance a company succeeds without the two syllable name, a two syllable pseudonym will materialize.
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by snarfy 6y ago
Life really is short. Plan for tomorrow or live for today. There is a balance, but I think many engineer types skew much too far into the planning, not enough into the living. I've gone to a lot of funerals and it is always a consta
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by snarfy 6y ago
After being on here for 10 years, I have zero expectations that policy will ever change. I see you've been on here quite a while yourself. I don't have that kind of hope anymore. Websites pay each other for Referer hits. It may
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by snarfy 6y ago
I took the NC headphones apart. I added wires to the mic used for noise cancelling and hung it out the window, closing the window around the wires. I added wires to the headphone speakers and connected them to a small amplifier that was h
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by snarfy 6y ago
I tried making something like this for closed windows out of a pair of broken NC headphones and some surface vibration speakers stuck to the window. It didn't work very well. This did get me interested though and am curious of what so
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by snarfy 6y ago
I remember when Street Fighter I was a new arcade game. The demonstration mode would show Ryu fighting Retsu, and occasionally he would throw a fireball. The game didn't say how to do it. It would always be this random thing that ha
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by snarfy 6y ago
Video games are doing pretty well.

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